Texas Border Town Fire Department Spending $21,000 Per Day Treating Migrants
JARED STOKES
CONTRIBUTOR
December 30, 2023
A local fire department in Eagle Pass, a Texas border town, is spending over $21,000 a day dealing with migrant-related emergencies, according to the Texas town’s fire chief.
The Eagle Pass Fire Department has reportedly been receiving about 30 migrant-related EMS calls a day; first responders arrive at either the Rio Grande or the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) nearly every hour in order to deal with the emergencies.
Fire Chief Manuel Mello told Fox News, “There’s not a day where we don’t go to the river’s edge to transport patients, and the city swallows the cost.” Since the department spends about $700 for each call, the migrant emergencies total up to about $21,000 per day. “We have all kinds of calls from minor cuts and bruises to hypothermia to heart attacks to broken bones to even childbirth,” Chief Mello reported. “So we’re transporting all kinds of patients, and they’re all migrants.” (RELATED: White House Quietly Alters Immigration Statement After Meeting With Mexico)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/30/texas-border-town-fire-department-spending-21000-per-day-treating-migrants/
